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Google Desktop is a free tool available for download from the Google web site. This powerful instrument is intended as a cross-platform solution that allows you to make searches on your local PC the same way as you search the WEB with Google. But what is good in general cannot be absolutely perfect for every particular case. Halftone Search from Trietech is a Google Desktop add-on that offers some advanced Google Desktop functionality to MS Windows users.
Google Desktop uses an HTML interface. It's fine for the net, but on your local desktop you would certainly prefer an application that uses native Windows controls. Halftone Search solves this problem by offering you an alternative Google Toolbar UI. With the Halftone Search, you can highlight search terms in the results, customize fonts, etc. The program can extract compressed files on-the-fly and show their contents. It also provides several ways to make searches. You can choose from a pop-up menu in your Windows tray, a form or a dockable toolbar in the main program window.
In addition to the interface enhancements, Halftone Search also extends the Google Desktop search engine itself. As you may know, Google Desktop uses "drivers" to collect searchable data from your local files.
"Drivers" are plugins that allow it to understand specific file formats.
Halftone Search installs drivers for compressed file archives (rar, zip, arj, tar, gz, bz2, etc.), chm files, MS Help v.2 files (just imagine a searchable index of all the help files on your disks), plain-text files with unicode support, web archives (mht) plus all the drivers you may have installed by MSN Desktop Search. With Halftone Search you can also manage all the installed drivers.
With all of the above in mind, we are quickly driven to the conclusion that Halftone Search is a must-have add-on for every Google Desktop user
with a Windows powered PC.
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Editor review: Reviewer, 2009-04-01 02:54:00
Halftone Search for Google Desktop 1.2.6 is a competent tool designed to help enhancing the Google Desktop search. The utility effectively scans different archives, web archives, and text files, allows indexing files, MSDN, help files, presents lightweight shell, and supports various other functions. The utility works to search data on your system, in way similar to that you carry out on the web search using Google. In addition to this it offers some of the Google Desktop’s advanced functionality to Windows users. While you carry out the search, it can highlight search terms within results, modify font, extract compressed files, display file content, and do even more.
Halftone Search for Google Desktop launches with a decently structured GUI that is accompanied with a set of self-explanatory options to support the search. The utility supports carrying out the search in several ways like pop-up menu, form, or dockable toolbar. The interface is configured with left pane set for the search options, mid panel to displays the search results and right pane to display the item preview. Enter your search criteria by stating what the program should look for, max items, along with selecting the time-limit when the file was modified. Now begin the search process and the application finds and lists the entire possible matches at mid area with entered keyword highlighted with results. When you select any of the files displayed in the search results, then for easing the selection process, its content preview is presented in right panel simultaneously. You can choose to view the search results in thumbnails or report mode. You can easily access the required files that leave you no hassles to browse through large number of folders to find it. Moreover, you can try variety of other features and alter settings relating the Drivers.
With the Halftone Search for Google Desktop 1.2.6, the file search process within your PC gets a new and effective face. Taking its remarkable feature-range and class leading performance into consideration, this PC search tool has been assigned with 4 rating points.
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